Hebrew University Awards Prize for "Research" Claiming that Jewish Soldiers Do Not Rape Arab Women because Israelis are Racists

by Steven Plaut

I wish I were making this up as some sort of a pre-Purimjoke. But it seems that the latest anti-Israel outrage coming out of the HebrewUniversity in Jerusalem is its awarding a prize to a graduate student for anessay in which the student claims that Israel is abusing and oppressingPalestinians by not raping their women. Really. (Seehttp://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124674 ) Had it not been awarded a prize by a panel of the HebrewUniversity's distinguished professors, the whole matter could be dismissed asjust another idiotic essay by a moonbat grad student, not something worthy ofany attention being paid to it. But according to news reports, the essay inquestion has now been published by the HebrewUniversity's "ShaineCenter," atthe enthusiastic recommendation of a HebrewUniversity professors' committeeheaded by Dr. Zali Gurevitch. The latter is a radical-leftist anthropologist whotaught for several years at KnoxCollege in Galesburg, Illinois. Don't worry, Inever heard of it either. His web page is here:http://sociology.huji.ac.il/2006/staff/gurevich/Gurevich runs the ShaineCenter, which awarded the prize. His fellowperps in this atrocity are listed here:http://www.huji.ac.il/dataj/controller/ihoker/MOP-DEPARTMENT_DESCRIPTION_LINK?department_no=01080 . I wonder if the Shaine family know what is being done with theircontributions to the university! The essay indicting Israeli soldiers for notraping Palestinian women was the product of the crayon of a MA student named TalNitzan. Tal is a she. Her main theme is that the "lack of IDF rapes ofPalestinian women is designed to serve a political purpose lack of IDF rapes ofPalestinian women is designed to serve a political purpose." The "politicalpurpose" is that Israel fears the Palestinians demographically and so IDFsoldiers do not rape the women to avoid creating new Palestinians and littleintifaders. Here is Nitzan at her finest: "In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it can be seen that the lack of military rape merely strengthens the ethnicboundaries and clarifies the inter-ethnic differences - just as organizedmilitary rape would have done." Israeli racism has resulted in suppressedJewish-male sexual desire for Palestinian women, just another manifestation ofZionist racism. Since the absence of rape of Arab women by Israeli soldiers hasno parallel in any other human army in wartime anytime in history, the onlyconclusion must be that Jewish soldiers are far more racist and intolerant thanthe others.Now Nitzan and her guru Gurevitch rule out automatically all otheralternative explanations for why Israeli troops do not rape Arab women. Thepossibility that Israeli troops are simply civilized humans is ruled out as animponderable. Ditto for the possibility that Jewish ethics serve to deter suchabuse of Arab women. Instead, Nitzan claims that Arab women in Judea and Samariaare not raped by IDF soldiers because the women are "de-humanized" in thesoldiers' eyes. I guess that means they are not rape worthy. You know, unlikeShulamit Aloni, Yael Dayan, and Tamar Gozansky. How did Nitzan reach thesecosmic conclusions? By conducting "interviews" with 25 soldiers. That is whatthe HebrewUniversity has sunk to . regarding 25 interviews as researchcomprising a MA thesis. I am willing to bet a year's salary that not a singleone of those soldiers said that he was foregoing raping Arab women because hewas afraid it would spawn little Palestinian intifada terrorists. So essentiallyNitzan is saying that the proof that Israeli soldiers are brutal oppressivestormtroopers is in the fact that they do NOT mistreat and sexually abusePalestinian women, not even the Palestinian terrorist women apprehended aftertrying to murder Jews. And as if this were not enough, let us note that not asingle one of the many radical feminist mini-organizations that plague Israelhad a single moo to utter about this obviously anti-woman
"research" paperinflicted upon the world by the HebrewUniversity. According to her own thesislogic, if little Tal herself were to be raped by Hamas terrorists, I guess thiswould pretty much prove that they are egalitarian and progressive seekers ofpeace and justice. Makor Rishon, a rightwing Hebrew weekly (www.makorrishon.co.il) broke the story of this Hebrew University "research" proving that Rape Refusal by Israeli soldiers serves to prove how racist theyare. (Story is here in Hebrew:http://www.makor1.co.il/makor/Article.faces;jsessionid=3edb07f230d5f5a01550e08a443fa0499601e2456c9c.e34Mc3aTbNiTby0LaxmNbxqRchmMe0?articleId=27530&channel=1&subchannel=2 ) Meanwhile, if you would like to let the heads of the Universityknow how the award of such a prize for such an essay by the Hebrew U will affectyour inclination to send them financial support, then by all means contact themat: Hebrew University: 1. President of the University:Title : Prof.First Name: MenachemFamily name: MagidorDepartment: President of the HebrewUniversityPrimaryEmail address: hupres@cc.huji.ac.il Second Email address (extra): menachem@math.huji.ac.il Email address
(extra):Menachem.Magidor@huji.ac.ilTelephone: 02-658414302-5881905The Hebrew University of JerusalemMt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905Tel.
02-5882111Fax. 02-5811023 2. Rector of theUniversity:Title : Prof.First Name: HaimFamily name: RabinowitchDepartment: Rector of theHebrewUniversityPrimary Email address: rabin@agri.huji.ac.ilSecond Email address (extra): rector@savion.huji.ac.il Emailaddress
(extra):Haim.Rabinowitch@huji.ac.il Telephone: 02-5882920Telephone (extra): 02-5882919 HebrewUniversity "Friends of" Offices:http://www.huji.ac.il/huji/eng/friends_e.htm